Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

The beauty of blue water touches my heart and lovingly invites me to swim with her.

A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

If I could control tomorrow's haze, The darkened shore wouldn't bother me, If I can't control the web we weave, My life will be lost in the fallen leaves...

We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church.

Sometimes a picture of a moment captures more than the moment itself.

Every tree is an angel!

Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.